It’s all very well getting an AI to write your code for you but neither writing code or reading code are the same as understanding code. So what is going on in novices brains when they learn to actually understand the code they are reading and writing?

Repurposed Appalachia Series Tucked in the quiet valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the town of Andrews, North Carolina, offers more than just a scenic rail bike ride—it offers a journey through history. Andrews Valley Rail Tours was launched during the town’s Oktoberfest festival in the fall of 2022, after the Andrews Chamber of Commerce partnered with Judy Fitzpatrick to develop this concept in 2021-2022.

Computing is widely taught in schools in the UK and Ireland, but how does the subject vary across primary and secondary education in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland? In episode 1 of our community podcast, we spoke to Sue Sentance, at the University of Cambridge about her paper Computing in School in the UK &

On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya released a statement accelerating the timeline […]

In the previous post I mooted the possibility that a high energy form of the dimer of nitric oxide 1 might nonetheless be able to be detected using suitable traps (such as hydrogenation or cycloaddition). However, an interesting alternative is that this species could be trapped by nitric oxide itself.

The rise of Large Language Models in academic writing. Postdoctoral researcher Dr Verena Haage was reviewing a manuscript for a reputable neuroscience journal when she began to notice unusual inconsistencies. Haage noticed that some figures had strange proportions, or illogical experimental timepoints, and that figures were arranged in a senseless order.

What the discovery of a new mammoth lineage in Mexico teaches us about the shifting paradigms of life

Climate change, nuclear winter, and stratospheric aerosol injections

Seit dem Antritt der Bundesregierung unter Kanzler Merz werden Asylsuchende an deutschen Grenzen zurückgewiesen. Der Beitrag zeigt anhand der Weisung des Bundesinnenministers, dass immer noch eine intensive Auseinandersetzung über die Geschichte des Sommers der Migration 2015 stattfindet. Dies hat auch Auswirkungen auf Europa.   In den Jahren vor 2015 war die Welt noch in Ordnung.

Dave Hone and me with a Sinclair brontosaur somewhere in Utah, back in May of 2023. I started my recent UK adventure in the city of London, where my son and I stayed for a couple of days with my friend and colleague Dave Hone and his partner Connie.

What do your students know ? What can they actually do and what approaches can students develop to solve challenging problems? The KSA framework from arm.com aims to map out the knowledge, skills and abilities that students (and employees) require to succeed as technical professionals. Join us on Monday 6th October at 2pm GMT to discuss this framework its authors.